UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology
Marcin S. Filutowicz
Professor of Bacteriology
6305 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
(608) 262-6947
msfiluto@wisc.edu
Select Publications
- Bowers LM, Filutowicz M. Cooperative binding mode of the inhibitors of R6K replication, pi dimers. J Mol Biol. 2008 377:609-15.
- Kunnimalaiyaan S, Rakowski SA, Filutowicz M. Structure-based functional analysis of the replication protein of plasmid R6K: key amino acids at the pi/DNA interface. J Bacteriol. 2007 189:4953-6.
- Bowers LM, Kruger R, Filutowicz M. Mechanism of origin activation by monomers of R6K-encoded pi protein. J Mol Biol. 2007 368:928-38.
- Shankar R, He LK, Szilagyi A, Muthu K, Gamelli RL, Filutowicz M, Wendt JL, Suzuki H, Dominguez M. A novel antibacterial gene transfer treatment for multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-induced burn sepsis. J Burn Care Res. 2007 28:6-12.
- Peng Y, Rakowski SA, Filutowicz M. Small deletion variants of the replication protein, pi, and their potential for over-replication-based antimicrobial activity. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2006 261:245-52.
- Kunnimalaiyaan S, Inman RB, Rakowski SA, Filutowicz M. Role of pi dimers in coupling ("handcuffing") of plasmid R6K's gamma ori iterons. J Bacteriol. 2005 187:3779-85.
- Bowers LM, Lapoint K, Anthony L, Pluciennik A, Filutowicz M. Bacterial expression system with tightly regulated gene expression and plasmid copy number. Gene. 2004 340:11-8.
- Kunnimalaiyaan S, Kruger R, Ross W, Rakowski SA, Filutowicz M. Binding modes of the initiator and inhibitor forms of the replication protein pi to the gamma ori iteron of plasmid R6K. J Biol Chem. 2004 279:41058-66.